In 1968, when Ted Dillard was eleven, his father brought home an electric car from his job at Massachusetts Electric. “It’s up to your generation,’” he told Dillard.“‘This technology’s been around. The problem is the batteries, and it’s up to your generation to...
Believe me when I say I wanted to write a lovely little news bite about the 25th anniversary of the Mazda Miata, and the reveal of the fourth generation Miata MX5. I was as excited as any gearhead, set to watch the livestream of the reveal for the 2016 model, ready to...
It starts with the smell – moth balls and bad motor oil. The metallic taste of rust in the air dances with dust, floating around in sunbeams that have snuck in through cracks in the wood. You hesitate to touch the worn leather, but you do anyway. Fifty years of insect...
In 1994 Volkswagen unveiled the Concept One, a modern nostalgia version of the classic Beetle. Just four years later, the New Beetle, as it was coined, went on sale for the masses. With a front engine configuration for safety, and and styling cues that would launch...
In the sleepy Boston suburb of Brookline, tucked up on a hill, the Larz Anderson Auto Museum hosts some of America’s oldest cars. The collection dates back to 1899, boasting Fiats, Renaults, and Lincolns, as well as cars from independent companies that barely saw the...
